A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

classic material

holy shit!!!!

TWO BLACK SWANSSSSSS

Seriously funny episode. "You can't be out here without your skates on, Stan".

'rick', I thought? but yeah, funny funny ep

Our damn DVR decided not to record this, have to wait for it to come up online.

"Me, Paul & Ben Roethlisberger in Cape May"

Did she call herself... the Mentaliz?

YES :)

episode killed it

'rick', I thought? but yeah, funny funny ep

― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy)

Ha, yes I was totally guessing at the name.

haha second time they've put jenna in blackface

she actually looked like Lynn Swan

such a great episode. one for the ages.

The cover of "There's No Wrong Way to Make a Family" was amazing.

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x333/gnima/family.jpg

the POVERTY bling was also amazing

pretty weak episode imo

KIDDING. haven't seen it yet.

didn't love the whole episode, but 2 black swans one of the top ten gags of 30 rock, all-time.

ohhhhh myyyy goddddd @ 2 black swans

"The symbol on the Jessup family crest is a knight refusing to talk about his feelings"

tbh 30 rock christmas eps have been weaksauce 3 years running now but this was a fuckin home run

ken's trash can family

"The symbol on the Jessup family crest is a knight refusing to talk about his feelings"

― I DIED, Saturday, December 11, 2010 6:17 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

forgotten this. amazing. great ep. even though i have no idea who the footballer is, black swans is an all-time gag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Swann

oh god yeah this episode was so great, so much good stuff

"what kind of emergency would you be needed for? were the '60s awesome?"
"....they were!"

the 2 black swans gag really was all-time.

haha yeah milton was great xp

http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/blackswans-300x198.jpg

i was actually touched when they sang!

dude totally, the last few minutes were strangely emotional actually

the POVERTY bling was also amazing

― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg yes

Oh Holy Night gets me every time tbh

"Ladies of the battered women's shelter, please be quiet, a man is talking!"

yeah tracy was on

glad dot com got a few good lines too, really feel like they were underutilizing him

I didn't like this one very much. Probably because I favor the episodes that feature the 30 Rock writers, Pete, Cerie... everybody. Especially in a Christmas episode, I want to see all of them! Plus IMHO Avery sucks and Jenna's boyfriend sucks too. They eat up way more screen time than their schticks warrant.

i can't fathom sitting around after a 30 Rock episode thinking "that could've been funnier if CERIE was there"

i dunno, i agree that the best part about xmas episodes is that they're an excuse to give the whole cast a bit of screentime.

they are? i mean i guess previous ones have had big setpieces but that's a strange expectation for a Christmas episode imo

maybe i'm remembering incorrectly, i dunno.

when people worried about Pete or whoever getting kind of pushed out or forgotten about if they weren't seen much for a while in the first couple seasons, i think that was a legitimate concern, lots of shows kind of quietly drop characters early on. but at this point i feel like they have a pretty big ensemble of supporting & recurring players and do a good job of just using them when they've got an idea and not just giving every single person a line just so they have one every week.

basically outside of the 5 main cast members, i can't say i'm ever disappointed if someone doesn't get screentime any given week

tracy jenna liz jack + kenneth?

"They just got caller ID in Vermont!"

hahahaha!

yeah (xpost)

i think expecting the entire cast to be utilized is kind of silly.

also, at first i hated the jenna/paul thing, but now i think it's my favorite subplot. maybe it's because i'm all like 'YEAH WEIRD QUEER SHIT' but u can't deny that the scene in Paul's work with Liz was just hysterical.

i think this ep is top five of all time, for me.

"Can I get you a cup of coffee, or an absinthe enema?"

"I see you brought the bag that my bastard grandchild will come in."

laffs aplenty!

dude from the office directed this episode. the bug-eyed farmer dude. don't know if that was mentioned.